Warriors of Anatolia. A Concise History of the Hittites - Trevor Bryce
sons, Telipinu and Sharri-Kushuh, were fully engaged with the task of maintaining Hittite authority in Syria, where they had bee ...
underestimated the new king. Inexperienced he may have been, but more than just a child. Already in his twenties at the time of ...
the main campaign army against his Arzawan enemy. He was joined by his brother Sharri-Kushuh with a contingent from Syria. It to ...
restock the homeland’s population–always a matter of pressing importance. Of course, the logistics of these deportations must ha ...
an urgent summons to his brother Sharri-Kushuh to meet him in the city. We aren’t told the purpose of the meeting, but it almost ...
In the face of all this, Mursili once more displayed the true mettle of a great warrior-leader. Threats to the eastern part of h ...
efforts of Mursili and his successors, they would continue to harass, invade and plunder Hittite territory until the kingdom’s v ...
effects of the plague. He says nothing of this in his Annals. But the prayer translated above leaves no doubt that, in Mursili’s ...
consisting of models of ‘five gold tumours and five gold rats’ (1 Samuel 6:4). By implication, the rats were associated with the ...
the effectiveness of his rule. (We’ll refer to some of them elsewhere in this book.) Yet in spite of all, he passed on to his su ...
CHAPTER 13 Health, Hygiene and Healing WARDING OFF POLLUTION T he food preparation areas would have passed even the most rigorou ...
and dressing them in clean garments on a daily basis, as well as providing them with food and drink. Yet cleanliness was not onl ...
that the transmission of infections was due to microbiological organisms. But they did understand that some sort of biological p ...
disposed of by an appropriate ritual, involving the use of substitute animals, like oxen (as in Mursili’s case), asses, birds, d ...
masculinity in return. You have cast off the (sexual) behaviour expected (of women); you have taken to yourself the behaviour ex ...
together to effect a cure, in particular when a case presented complex problems. As Albert Einstein once said, Seeing with eyes ...
process of sacrificing an animal and examining its entrails had to be repeated – and then again until an affirmative answer was ...
priest to see what they can do.’Arrogant and unchivalrous though this reply was, Ramesses was almost certainly correct, as my ca ...
than those who formed the elite class of Hittite society. In the next three chapters, we’ll get a few glimpses into the life of ...
CHAPTER 14 Justice and the Commoner THEHITTITELAWS A collection of 200 laws provides us with our best source of information on h ...
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